Rackspace to Provide IT Infrastructure for Dell Medical School's Epic EHR System.

Rackspace Technology has partnered with Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin to provide IT infrastructure support, including hosting and managing healthcare data center needs and Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. The partnership aims to establish Dell Med as a world-class academic medical center and support its digital transformation. Rackspace will deliver a fully managed service model for the institution's hosted data center and Epic deployment.

Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ: RXT) has announced a strategic partnership with Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin (Dell Med) to provide comprehensive IT infrastructure support, including hosting and managing healthcare data center needs and Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. The collaboration aims to establish Dell Med as a world-class academic medical center and support its digital transformation.

Under the agreement, Rackspace will deliver a fully managed service model for the institution's hosted data center and Epic deployment. This partnership marks a significant shift in healthcare IT infrastructure, as Dell Med plans to build a new academic medical center without traditional physical data centers. Rackspace will provide secure and compliant cloud services with built-in redundancy to support patient safety and system resilience [1][2].

The partnership highlights a joint commitment to pursuing transformative initiatives that enhance healthcare service delivery, medical education, and research. Leveraging Rackspace’s infrastructure and expertise in Epic deployments, Dell Med aims to revolutionize healthcare access and delivery, significantly advancing patient care standards [1].

For Rackspace, this represents potential expansion in the healthcare vertical, one of the largest IT spending sectors in the economy. The fully managed service model for Dell Med likely indicates a higher-margin engagement compared to basic infrastructure provision. Healthcare clients typically require long-term commitments with stable recurring revenue due to the complexity of migrations [2].

The partnership's innovative nature, creating what appears to be the first academic medical center without traditional data centers, provides Rackspace with a high-profile reference implementation that could attract similar institutions looking to modernize their infrastructure while maintaining compliance with healthcare regulations like HIPAA [2].

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[1] https://www.marketscreener.com/news/dell-medical-school-taps-rackspace-for-industry-disrupting-cloud-strategy-building-an-academic-medi-ce7c51dad880f727
[2] https://www.stocktitan.net/news/RXT/dell-medical-school-taps-rackspace-for-industry-disrupting-cloud-6h0qahnbbsq4.html